Kurt Groetsch @ OldTasty.com

Let’s just say this article speaks to me at the moment…
Beaver Overthinking Dam
HUNTSVILLE, ONTARIO—Local beaver Dennis Messner is spending an inordinate amount of time and effort in the planning and construction phases of building his dam, according to neighbors close to the project.
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“There are two primary schools of thought on dam building: the instinctive school […]

I promise a return to regular posting and what happens? Nothing at all, for which I apologize.
All is well up here in Chambana. It’s hard to believe, but I’m already almost halfway through the semester, and those major projects that were looming in the distance a month ago are almost on top of me. One […]

Classes are kicking my ass and I don’t see that changing for a while. Which classes? Why, these classes:

LIS 501AL1 — Information Organization and Access
LIS 590DIL — Digital Libraries: Research and Practice
LIS 590II — Interfaces to Information Systems

I’d had a less technical semester planned, but because there’s now a good chance I’ll be moving back […]

Home away from home, originally uploaded by Oldtasty.
Want to find me on campus this semester? More often than not I’ll be in the northwest corner of the UIUC reference room, tapping away on my computer or marking up one of my class readings. The engineering library may be open until three in the morning but […]

It’s been too damn hot this week in central Illinois, which has put an end to the idea that I could make it all summer without air conditioning in my apartment. So in preparation for my trip to the local home store to pick up window units for the living room (nice-to-have) and bedroom (gots-to-have), […]

It’s been so long since I updated this site that I hardly know where to start. So we’ll start at the very beginning, which is indeed a very fine place to start:

Classes wrapped up the first week in May, and despite not having taken an exam in ten years or so (aside from a driving […]

In no particular order:

Shaolin Soccer was fantastic. Laughed my head off along with the rest of the audience. Why can’t Hollywood make films that are this frenetic and entertaining anymore? Vertical Ray of the Sun? Beautiful to look at, and it had its moments, but the writer(s) could have told the story a little more […]

Year of Asia: Third Annual Film Series
Pan-Asian Cinema, March 11 & 12, 2005
Free admission
Friday:
Story of the Weeping Camel (Mongolia, 2003)
Vertical Ray of the Sun (Vietnam, 2000)
Millennium Mambo (Taiwan, 2001)
Saturday:
Shaolin Soccer (Hong Kong, 2001)
Small Voices (Philippines, 2002)
Kick the Moon (South Korea, 2001)
Last Life in the Universe (Thailand/Japan, 2003)

GSLIS Building, originally uploaded by Oldtasty.
Where I spend most of my time these days. The building used to be a fraternity house but was taken over by the university when the frat’s charter was revoked, which explains why we’re located in the heart of the undergrad fraternity and sorority district. We’re also just down the […]